14 School Things.. That DID NOT Stand the Test of Time
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- 14 School Things.. That DID NOT Stand the Test of Time
#nostalgia #1970s #schoolthings
Buckle up for a ride back to the 20th-century school days! A time when soda fountains were the coolest hangout spots and rock 'n' roll was just finding its groove. Let's take a leisurely walk down memory lane, revisiting those classroom staples that shaped the educational experiences of yesteryear. So, dust off your yearbooks, slick back that hair and let's jitterbug through the corridors of history, back to the classrooms that saw it all.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:26 Trapper Keeper
1:06 Library Checkout Card
1:43 Chalkboard
2:19 Metal Lunchbox
3:04 Wall Mounted Pencil Sharpener
3:41 Paper Bag Book Covers
4:20 Bookstrap
5:02 Movie Projector
5:45 Encyclopedia
6:23 Foreign Language Copies
7:02 Card Catalog
7:44 Grade Book Report Cards
8:21 Spinning Globe
9:11 Ring Bell
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Which nostalgic school things do you miss the most?
Lockers, metal monkey bars and the rest of the 70s elementary school playgrounds, including the kid flinger 3000, also known as the merry-go-round, one of my favorites 😊
I forgot Trapper Keepers
I loved the trapper keeper.
I kind of wish they would bring back the the check out card. It was interesting to see who else had checked out the book.
Apparently NARA should give that a try. It works for libraries. They can track you down years later.
I remember those pull down maps. They looked worn and yellowed before out time. Some of them had tears and sometimes the maps wouldn't stay down. Great times!
Also gone from schools is the overhead projector
I remember that.
I used it every day when teaching
I remember the globes having humps where the mountains were.
Topographical!
Sit down! I know the bell rang but you are not released until I say you are released !!! 😂
🤣🤣🤣
😆😆😂😂🤣 I remember that well. I was so excited when the bell rang and knowing it was time to see other class friends as I passed through the school lobby waving hi to each other 😊😌 fun memories 🙏🏾
Anyone else have that ONE smart kid in class they always asked to set up the tv/ vcr cart on movie day? He seemed to be the only person able to set it up. OG tech support
That kid was me!
Yes! In 6th grade. I set up the movie projector. My teacher did appreciate it.😀
I worked in teaching, if a more senior member of staff was doing a PowerPoint presentation he/she would bribe one of the brighter kids with a £1 coin to set it up for them.
Blackboard erasers and the job of going outside to clap them together to clean them- it was on the "chore list" in an elementary classroom. Watching a reel to reel played backwards of a volcano was so funny in 3rd grade. Encyclopedias- where I learned how to plagiarize! Cliff Notes, pull-down maps, overhead projectors, gym suits, jungle gyms, merry go rounds, slides and swings sets.
also. dusting the teacher's chair with the eraser.
Interesting - chalk is now all but banned in UK schools because of the dust hazard. Whiteboard pens must also be water not chemical based following incidents of staff and students sniffing the pens to get high.
I miss the cards in the back of library books and the card catalogue that used the dewey decimal system. I still love libraries. Oh, don't forget the microfilm machines!
Ah, the aroma of mimeograph fluid!
I lived in our school's library and the microfilm machines were my favorite!
You know, etsy or someone had a library stamp card SCARF! I STILL love it! Soft and machine wash!
Someone had them as bookmarks, too.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 The nerd in me is thrilled by this.
My mother's still has a wall mounted pencil sharper in her house. The last kid left home in 1997.
My grandmother died at 99. Her sheet linoleum was there as long as I can remember. Armstrong Montina pattern, 1965. Sold building recently. It's STILL there, 90% completely intact! Not that we necessarily wanna go running back to (possibly) asbestos, but it's fine as long as you don't fool w it (try to rip it up!).
But show me another linoleum flooring that's that old. She had a 70+ year old stove, too. I have a 40 year old GE I got w my house. Works better than the overpriced Fisher Paykel. I will say it didn't support mold as easily as some fridges do, but it does rattle and its an odd size, so won't be easy to replace. Door seals, too--pppppbbbbt! :p
There's stuff on Flikr of this flooring pattern. Kind of interesting that it was little bits suspended in some kind of fixative.
My mom has one mounted in the basement
When my dad died I took our pencil sharpener out of the house. My brother started school in 1953, my sister in 1958 & I graduated high school in 1977. How many electric pencil sharpeners would have been required?
Film strips. I loved those. Especially the History ones. I can still picture one of them in my head.
Filmstrips, overhead projectors, 4-pieces-of-chalk holders for drawing lines to learn handwriting, tablets (NOT the electronic ones!), ditto sheets
Or the 5 piece chalk holder for music.
I hope the tablets weren’t prescribed by a doctor.
Those ditto sheets smelled so good.
Yes! I was looking for someone to mention ditto sheets.😀
I LOVED my Trapper Keeper 💖
remember the Pee Chees?
@@marydesmond9595 I sure do 😊
I miss globes and blackboards the most
I also remember those pull-down maps.
yes! and Music Teacher had 5- chalk Holder& drew 5- line musical area Anew every Day
Home Goods ALWAYS has inexpensive globes and you can find gorgeous maps in perfect condition from the golden days of Pan Am (mid-50s)
The Pan Am teal and pink map (freebie, looks like) ran barely 20 bucks. Like new.
I bought a globe as an adult because they were cool to me and a much better way to understand the size of countries and scale.
I was a library assistant in middle school (yes, clearly I was very cool and popular 😅) when there was only a card catalog. I own over 100 metal lunchboxes because lunch was the best time of the school. Trapper Keepers should come back. I bet they would be popular again.
They have, that colorful one in the video can be bought at Walmart. Unfortunately, I think today's kids prefer electronic ones.
I was a library assistant in 5th grade, and yep, I was probably as popular as you were. I liked the job though. I also got to be plant assistant one year. I am still a reader and I garden.
The problem with encyclopedias was that the information was usually not current.
The internet isn't much better because there has been times I'm just looking for information just for one thing which instead of getting information on the first try I'm actually searching through 20 websites until I find a site that doesn't load like a old Windows 95 PC or get a annoying paywall to find out that the site doesn't have the information.
But they were factual and accurate.
And expensive too.
@@kayeragdull217they couldn't keep up with science. There were so many breakthroughs in science in the 50s through the 70s that nothing could keep up.
Well we didn't have much of a choice lol. The library had up to date encyclopedias. We couldn't whip out our portable internet devices. And truthfully? I wouldn't have it any way. 70s ruled 🎉🎉❤
I was class of '79 so yes, I remember all those things, except bookstraps, I had what was called a bookbag . Back in '72 my parents bought a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. I used to spend hours in them just to learn things I wasn't being taught in school.
Our Mom, in her practicality and wisdom, enforced a sharing of topics at the dinner table, since in our elementary school ages the conversation had previously drifted to crassness. If my sister or I couldn’t think of something interesting from our school day (which was usually the case), we would rumble off to the bookcase, pick an Encyclopedia topic, and share that. They probably got used more then, than any other time 😃 📚
Enjoyed watching the video on book covers. That was the best part of getting new books for the year. I loved decorating them.
To this day, I still can't write in most books in pen! It makes me uncomfortable to dog ear a page, too. Thank got we can take pictures of it w phone.
We used chalk boards in my schools through the 90s and early 2000.
We had a smoking area at my high school in the 70'd. Lake Elsinore high school California lol.class of 1980.
Those were the days. Fullerton High 1983
My high school also had a smoking area outside in the back corner of the bus parking area in the mid seventies.
It was gone by the late seventies. I remember thinking when I was in ninth grade that it was crazy that the school district actually allowed that.
Went to a Baptist school in Memphis, class of 1980, and even WE had a smoking area.
There was still a smoking area in my high school when I was a freshman 9th grade). The teachers could also smoke in their lounge. By my sophomore there was no smoking in the building at all. By my senior year (1991), you could only smoke if you were in your car in the parking lot. When I think about the social changes that have occurred in my lifetime, smoking is the main one that comes to mind. I can remember going in the store alone while my mother sat in the car (if she only needed a few things) and she would tell me what to buy, and that included my father's cigarettes. I was 5-6 years old.
I graduated in 1982. Our smoking area was in the bathroom, with a guy standing guard at the door. Or at a well-concealed little space between the trees at the park behind the school. The stoners had their area across the street in the desert area across the street. No Smoking at my school.
I remember in second grade coming home from school to find police cars and avery assertive lady in my living room. My mother was in tears begging the lady to leave my baby sister alone. I was put into the back of a car and questioned for hours about my home life. At the end my father came home from work and threatened to take the aggressive lady's head off if she ever bothered my mother again. After everyone left and I was able to calm down my father sat me down and told me that all of the police and child protection services were there because a door to door salesman had called and reported my parents for child abuse because my mother refused to purchase a $700 set of Encyclopedia Britannica encyclopedias. This was in 1975 and my father was in the Army making $520 per month with a wife and 3 kids to feed.
ahhhh. Old School Drama. lol.. those were the days! ^_^
That makes me so angry
They took all that time to harass your family
How many kids are left in or keep getting returned to dangerous and/or neglectful parents and yet they decided it was really necessary to harass your family
So sorry you had to go through that
My "lunchbox" was a brown paper bag. In the 6th. grade, the 6th. and 7th. grade student were moved to the old H.S. just after a new H.S. was completed. It didn't have a bell. It had a 10 inch pipe that ran from the bottom floor to the 2nd. story floor. The "bell" was when one of the school staff would go hit it with a hammer. It definitely caused problems because anyone could bang on it at any time...and we all know, boys will be boys. That arrangement only lasted 1 year before students were moved into the new H.S.
I loved my pencil box
I haven't been in a classroom in 45 year's, so I thought they still had all those items in the classroom.
Same here, 49 years! 👵🏻😂😂
No chalk boards.. white boards.. eraseable markers. And If that; everything is done online, these days. Everyone stares at a screen. Their own lol. They're not even learning math the same way.. they have a completely new method for figuring out math problems.. and its' not cool. They learn 'coding'.. which is basically.. digitil-izing everyone's data for the grid. Most go through metal detectors, pat downs.. armed police in the hallways. Assaults on students with impunity. School is a fkn TERRIBLE place for children, these days. I would not send my own, if I had a youngster I was responsible for currently. Mine is grown, and he's gay and won't be producing and i"m grateful for that. xo
What about the mimeograph? Before copy machines, the ink was sometimes still wet if the teacher did not get them copied soon enough ahead of time.😂
It smelled great! And felt all damp and floppy.
And ditto machine. They are 2 different processes.
The bell was sometimes used for fire drills.
I graduated in 74 and I've never even heard of a book strap, much less seen one. No one in South Florida ever carried books with a book strap.
No one in south Florida carries any books.
@@chiarac3833 we did in 74.
I graduated in 81
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Mostly, my books stayed in my locker where they belonged....lol..
. Peace
Same in CA, no one used book straps.
I am 67 and STILL use a lunch box... guess old habits are hard to break
OMG, you have brewed up memory I have forgotten so many years ago. as a 68 year old man this brings so much back!
Thank you so much! I have a few old former library books with the cards still in them!
There is nothing about my time in school that brings back fond memories....
I bet you're fun at parties...
Same here! Now, I have 3 college degrees, but school was NOT good. I am ASD but in those days we only had the letters LAZY.😊
What is ASD?
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Autism Spectrum Disorder.
I loved paperbags covers in grade school. As soon as I got my school books my mom would get paper bags from the grocery store. Its was school rule to cover up text books anyway. I didn't mind that rule since I can doodle all over the paperbag cover until it either tore, I was out of space for more doodles, or it was the end of the school year and it was time to give back the text books for the new class. 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Ahhh, the pencil sharpener! The opportunity to drop off a couple of notes and see how people were coping. Nothing was examined more closely than the point. Often requiring more time to perfect
Paper Bag book covers. Lord do I remember them. Loved them!!!
Maps over the Black Boards and typewriters
i started smiling about 5 seconds in and didn't stop. ^_^
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤
Same
Would love to go back to the 50’s
I remember the Pee Chee folders in the 70s!
"Soostenance." 😆
I know it seems weird to any educated person, but mispronunciations on You Tube are the new mo-DELL.
Must be Canadian.
It amuses me how easily the "digital world" provides information but I keep encountering more and more uninformed and clueless people.
Whi can't read, spell or handle money. AT ALL.
Back in the late 60s and early 70s, I lived in Germany. Bad Tolz to be exact. The school chalk boards moved up and down. So, cursive writing was on one board and the other one behind it was math. We used to fight over clapping the erasers outside to get the chalk powder off.
I was a little kid in the ‘70s. It was such a treat when we’d watch movies on the movie projector!! 📽️
Our school bells was like the one in the video and you could hear it no matter what class you was in . We had a school lunchroom and tickets they would punch a hole in for the day we had lunch that we had to carry with us . Every once in a while we would bring a sack lunch and it was as good as the school lunch . I never had any problem with our library in school or public , I could find anything just about for that day and age .
Our bell sounded like those you hear on TV on Fire Station, followed by little Boops indicating what period was next, like a little cou-cou clock.
I remember many a time in elementary school taking the chalkboard erasers outside every Friday afternoon just before school let out so I could clap out the chalk dust. And it was somebody else's responsibility to take a damp sponge and wipe down the chalkboard. I'd then come back in the classroom to put the erasers on the wooden ledge at the bottom of the chalkboard, and they'd be ready to go at the start of next week. Watching films was always looked forward to as well, and I when I attended middle and high school, it was during a weird transitional phase when both reel-to-reel projectors and VCR/TV wheeled media carts were being used before the latter overtook the former. I can't even remember the last time I used a hand-cranked pencil sharpener, although my nieces tell me they still see them in the classrooms every so often.
To this day i prefer chalkboards. I had a Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox.
I had a Bionic Woman one lol
We had a Board.of Education hanging near the teachers desk.
Out of all those things I never saw a book strap . We knew our parents used them an eon ago before our time in the 50& 60’s. Even when in college in the 70’s I never saw anyone. Maybe it was a North East Coast thing.
I had that Star Wars lunch box🎉 and many of the others
How about the simple analogue clock. My step children didn’t know how to tell time from one when their mom and I first got together because schools now only have digital clocks.
That, and the fact that they're all horrible about money and can't spell, not to mention reading comprehension* makes me glad I probably won't be around 50+ years.
*tried to get a side door for my garage. They showed up thinking it was a GARAGE OH DOOR!
Had to show them the work order and ask them what where it says OH door on it (it doesn't; SPECIFICALLY SAID "side entry door!")
They lost a lot of business from that alone, because if you don't even bother to READ the order, I can't trust you to work on my house!
That's why they had that "no green M & M's clause on a rock musician's legal rider: DL Roth or whoever wanted to KNOW people used reading comprehension skills on something stupid first. Ha
The only 2 things I didn’t see in school were the book strap and whatever the foreign language thing was
Except for the book strap and language catalog I have experienced all of these. As a matter of fact, every year when I buy school supplies for my daughter, I see the trapper keeper. She doesn't want it. I don't need it. But I have to fight the urge not to buy one. Oh how I missed my trapper keeper. Those brown paper bags were a life saver. If we damaged books we got a bill at the end of the year so the bag took most of the damage. If it started looking rough or ripping we just put a new one on. I do NOT miss looking things up in card catalog or encyclopedia. We had chalk boards some in Elementary School, but by High School it was dry erase boards or overhead projectors. Memories.
There is a certain nuance in looking up information, rather then using the internet for everything. Normally encyclopedia’s were updated….and regardless, they still were a good source of information, and perhaps included some information you might not find.
Frankly, I don’t know what kindergarten teachers do now without black boards as we all took turns learning how to write our numbers and letters! But however you learned, it’s important you did, and that’s the goal. Never had a backpack, or book-strap….we left our books in our home room desk and took out what we needed for the day. Carried what we needed home for homework.
Same with dictionaries. Having to look up something in the dictionary taught so much more than just the meaning of the word you were looking up.
My mother would rap my text books in brown paper bags starting in the 3rd grade and ending with my community college days
I had THE Snoopy lunch box with the thermos in the top.
I walked past a school that was not in session one day, the bell rang and i could hear it from the sidewalk, i felt like i was going to be late for something. I have been out of school for 30 years.
I live around the corner from the elementary school and about a block from the HS. Trust me when I say school bells are still definitely a thing 😂
When I was growing up, we didn’t have bells to let us know to move on to the next class. The teachers moved to the classroom ti teacher their subjects, not the students(middle school or junior high). In elementary school one teacher taught all subjects. The only bell was the handheld bell a teacher would ring to bring us in from recess outdoors(weather permitting), otherwise we were told to go to are classroom after recess( held in basement or gym area). 4 classes held in an old two room school house. This was in the rural area in late 50’s. ❤😂
In Grade School, we one teacher all day, except for music and P.E. In 7th and 8th Grades, the whole class moved to another room for the next subject, except for our electives (which were woodshop, drama, band, and a few others). It wasn't until High School each student would have there own schedule. Each year before school started, we all went to the gym and signed up for the classes we wanted. You took your schedule to various tables were a teacher see if there was still room in the class you wanted. If there wasn't either picked another time, or dropped it (if it was an Elective). Seniors always went first, Juniors 2nd, Sophomores 3rd and Freshmen last.
You mentioned one kind of folder (one that I was unfamiliar with), but didn't mention one that everyone (and I do mean everyone) used...The PeeChee folder!
Well, in the 60's anyway...🙂
How can i forget 🥺
“LOVE IS FUN BUT SEX IS AN ALL-SEASON SPORT”! ❤😂 Pretty sure the Pee-Chee was West Coast only.
At 2:13 . . . Is that ex president
Lyndon Baines Johnson ?! 🤔🤨
Until the 4th grade, we had to bring our own lunches. Lots of us had lunch boxes. I don't remember any of the Thermoses inside lasting till Christmas break. Then from 5-8 grade, the school provided hot meals. At the beggining of the week you bought your tickets for the week at the front desk before school started. Those that paid full price got blue tickets, those that got discount lunches got red, and those that got free lunches got white. I started with the Red tickets, but by the end of the year, I got white ones. It had to do with how much your parents made. As my Mom was raising 3 kids alone in the same school district, we all should have been on white tickets the whole time. The kids never even relized there was a reason behind the different colors, so no one picked on the those of us who couldn't afford to buy lunch.
SMH at the fact someone thinks things got EASIER when the backpack came onto the scene.
More space=More room to carry stuff= chronic back problems by the time you hit college..
Anyone else get nostalgic for "tape hiss?" Led Zepplin and the squeaking kick drum.pedal on "Since I've been Loving You?"
I had a Star Trek lunchbox...as I recall, they would rust easily.
Bookcovers :D Our school bookstore sold them.
I always used brown paper grocery bags and then doodled on them to decorate them.
@@jenniferhansen3622 That was fairly common, but the ones the bookstore sold lasted longer.
@@jenniferhansen3622 same
@@jenniferhansen3622 me too….the good old days.
We would do well to hang on to those globes. There isn’t any other way to see the whole earth at once and put your finger on where you are in relation to everywhere else. I had a high school senior visiting me with my granddaughter and she didn’t know where England was. I bought a map and tacked it up in the hallway. I love maps and we still need them. I think if you can’t read a road map you don’t really know where you are. Google can only tell you how to get where you want to go. That’s wonderful too, but kids deserve to be taught to be aware of more. Otherwise Ukraine or Israel or Mexico mean nothing to them.
We had a colliers encyclopedia collection and every year they gave us a new one called a yearbook which updated the two current affairs
Don't want to part with my parents' set of Collier's Encyclopedias from 1967!
I was so glad to get rid of blackboards when teaching because I’m allergic to chalk dust. I bought my own white boards before the school was remodeled.
Had to laugh at that report card showing the class for shorthand, another relic of the 20th century.
I miss card catalogs at the library. Just for fun you could walk up to it, pull a drawer and flip through till something caught your eye. You never knew what you'd end up reading about. It was a way to widen learning and interests yourself not just follow mindlessly some influencers recommendations. Not the influencers actually know what books are.
I didn't get to use the Trapper Keepers in high school because they didn't come out until 1978
Graduated in 1975 and I had one!
I'm more than halfway done, and the only thing I didn't use was the book strap. I guess I'm old.
Say, anyone want to comment on their favourite lunchboxes? I remember having Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Battlestar Galactica, and the Transformers (I was a sci-fi fan, and still am)
I honestly don't remember any lunchboxes at all. Lunch was .40 in the 80s. Lol. Cheaper than making it at home! Ha.
If I had one, it was probably puppies, a theme I'm still big on today!
Took my dog to a friend's Wisconsin cabin. I knew his late dad hunted (don't agree w that) but I didn't know they had a black lab.
My little 45 pound Susan and I go and it's a Franklin Mint laden shrine of black lab decor! Lol! I've got a photo of her on a black lab rug, surrounded by black lab plates, a trash can, you name it.
I'll go for Alien/s in that regard. Look up the Spaceballs spoof. I almost fell on the floor.
You grab a tennis ball and you watch 400 years of breeding lock into her ears perking up. Then You throw it and she won't bring it BACK! lol
My other yellow lab and Staffie tried to kill each other over a tennis ball once, so I had to buy spares. Nobody got hurt, but it looked very serious.
We learned to type on word processors, it was a cross between a typewriter and a computer.
The stamp cards in Chicago were always in front.
Not being from US, we never had trapper keeper. And I'd love to have cause I prefer written or printed material over reading and writing on screen.
Ring reinforcements - paper discs which you stuck on to the holes in the margin of your A4 notepad. Stopped the paper from ripping and pages coming loose. They served as one of those displacement activities you did while thinking about doing your homework.
I got my kid a Trapper Keeper off Amazon ☺️ it’s not like the old one but pretty close !
Still does the job! 😉
The metal rings are certainly an improvement over the old plastic ones thst broke soon, and the snap closure instead of velcro as well.
I honestly think the book strap should come back for public schools and they should ban backpacks. It’s a whole lot harder to smuggle things in if it’s visible.
I did not like the trapper keeper. It opened up too wide and would cascade off your desk without notice. Once I learned to keep a red notebook, I did better in school.
Today, we would call him an alcoholic and try to get him help, but when I was in 8th grade we called him an alcki or drunkard. We saw more movies, seemed like least twice a week, in our 8th grade science class. In fact one 6-week grading period, I saved every quiz and test because I knew I wasn’t doing ‘D’ work. Before writing the grade on our report cards, he’d show us our grade. I told him he was wrong, and proved it. He changed what he was going to put on my report card from a ‘D’ to a ‘C’.
Alkie or drunkard isn't a bad word. Please see George Carlin on that. I've been sober over 13 years. You can't change or sober up a lush. A former drunk might be able to get through, but only if they really don't care if they get sober or not. I've told them that because old school was not chasing anyone down or wasting time if they don't want to do a bit of soul searching work. Namely when you can have 100 people you COULD help, waiting.
Calling it "Alcohol use disorder" is just ridiculous. Shame isn't bad. It often wakes us up! That's why they have AA in jail.
It's a genetic problem where 2 liver enzymes are missing. Period. Just don't pick up the first one and try not to be such a jerk. Simple.
In some cases the card catalogue is not completely replaced. It is an older system that still remains in many cases.
I helped install the digital boards 16 years ago at our local schools
OMFG, i HATED those in college! Apple, I think and they NEVER worked!!
Plus, tell you what, WHITE keyboards with gross people touching them all day, every day, is just NASTY. Glad I could SEE the filth. Started bringing my own laptop/never touching it without extensive cleaning first! YUCK.
They were GREY. Ew.
Never heard of a book strap.
Great video but you forgot the green army back pack school bag. Late 60s to early 70s every boy had one and a lot of the girls too. The system was getting us ready to go to Vietnam
By the time our kids were old enough to need a trapper, their school explicitly forbid them for some reason
I miss the encyclopedias they were so awesome and full of so much information my husband and I kept a set around for years we felt it was important for the kids to know how to find stuff in a good old book and then actually read what they were researching for a school report… our oldest son is 33 now and our youngest child is 16 so one by one the encyclopedia’s went bye bye 🤷🏼♀️ hell we kept a good old phone book for years too but the phone company doesn’t have them anymore so no more phone books in the house 😮
In first grade at the old school we had a physical bell and a different student monitor was assigned to ring it daily. I remember trying to ring it - it was heavy for me - and all the students running past me as I fumbled with it. When the new school was built it had a “modern “ electric bell 😂
I graduated from high school in 1966, never used or saw a "book strap".
Same here. Never heard of them. We had zippered notebooks. Class of 1963
I think you forget how wonderful life was without internet and Phones. It has destroyed an entire generation at all.
More than one. GenX was truly the last free generation 😊
Ah-ha! The“new and dynamic” way of doing things is probably what slow down my generation😅 I bet it was more fun and encouraging to learn a new language by book rather than digitally. I know it’s easier nowadays to some degree but still doing it manually is probably or was probably more rewarding.
Even if there are pencil sharpeners they will be electric.
I have one you can use either way. It's actually BETTER w/o batteries!
Trapper Keepers are back.
Gosh im getting old...67 & I remember...
trappers are still in use.
The elementary school I went to is an administrative building. The junior high school is almost 100 years old and a physical structure for movie making. The "new" high school is almost 60 years old. I graduated from high school in 73, and they are dying off.
I forgot trapper keepers on my list 😮
As far as the card catalogs go. Don't forget Microfiche.
Is that LBJ at 2:14😂??
We still use lunch box and pencil sharpeners
The globe would become obsolete just like the encyclopedia books.
The earth is still round. 🤣😂😆
A topographical globe could show the land features. Yes, the political divisions would change. I recently learned that the AuthaGraph map is more accurate with less distortions 🌎🌍🌏
I've been working in libraries since 2001...and people still say card catalogs and ask about microfilm/microfiche 🥴